Social Justice

A little girl in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is using her artistic abilities to help people affected by the destructive riots following the death of George Floyd.

A bizarre op-ed at the Washington Post on Thursday commanded Hollywood to cease making movies and television shows about the police, because such entertainment is somehow empowering cops like the one accused of killing George Floyd and preventing Americans from understanding just how awful the police really are.

Michael Jordan and the Jordan Brand plan to donate $100 million to “organizations dedicated to ensuring racial equality, social justice and greater access to education,” over the next ten years.

NFL players from across the league have gathered for a 70-second video demanding that the NFL deliver a message about Black Lives Matter.

Five Democrat senators knelt during a moment of silence for George Floyd — a black man who recently died in police custody — on Capitol Hill Friday afternoon.

The Jacksonville Jaguars decided take to the streets and launch their own protest against police brutality on Friday, marching from their stadium to the local sheriff’s department.

Students at the University of Washington are demanding a relaxed grading policy to help black students “cope emotionally” with the ongoing protests and riots that have erupted in major cities around the nation after George Floyd died during an arrest on May 26 in Minneapolis. According to a student petition with 50,000 signatures, “If UW truly understands our pain, UW will be a part of alleviating it.”

Left-wing Wikipedia editors are using articles about the police-involved death of George Floyd and subsequent protests to attack President Donald Trump, including creating individual articles attacking his statements and actions to get them on Wikipedia’s front page. Editors have unduly favored comments criticizing Trump or America, even uncritically repeating attacks from authoritarian governments such as China and Iran, and emphasized police violence over violence from protestors, including Antifa. Such efforts have extended to pushing claims of “far-right” involvement.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced this week that the company will donate $37 million to various anti-racism organizations in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd. The donations will include $12 million in funding and $25 million in advertising credits.

Appearing Thursday on MSNBC, Rep. Maxine Waters (D) argued that Americans should be “thankful” for protests against George Floyd’s death — despite some of them devolving into violence and looting — saying that the demonstrators are attempting to achieve social

Business review site Yelp announces that it will provide a special search feature on its platform so that users can limit their results to black-owned businesses.

Actress Kristen Bell says that she will raise her daughters, 5 and 7, to be “anti-racists” in the wake of the death of George Floyd, adding that it’s up to “white people” to end racism because black Americans are too busy “trying to survive.”

While Blue America reaps the whirlwind, if the rest of us are prepared, we can clean our guns, grill meat, and enjoy Al Bundy taunting fat women.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) on Friday told President Donald Trump to “keep George Floyd’s name out of your mouth” after the president expressed hope that “George is looking down right now and saying this is a great thing that’s happening for our country” in “terms of equality.”

Actress Keke Palmer berated National Guardsmen in Hollywood this week after they refused to leave their post protecting area businesses to march alongside protesters. Even after taking a knee to demonstrate solidarity, the actress dismissively told the Guardsmen “that ain’t enough for me.”

Rap superstar Kanye West was accused of hijacking a protest he marched in on Thursday night in Chicago demanding justice for George Floyd, the Minneapolis man whose death in police custody has led to a worldwide resurgence of the anti-police Black Lives Matter movement.

City officials in Washington, DC, have painted “Black Lives Matter” in massive lettering on a portion of 16th street in front of the White House ahead of this weekend’s protests, with Mayor Muriel Bowser officially declaring the area “Black Lives Matter Plaza.”

While Drew Brees was facing an avalanche of criticism for saying that NFL anthem protests were a sign of “disrespect” for the flag, Fox News host Laura Ingraham defended Brees and his right to free speech.

Twitter continues its campaign of censorship against President Donald Trump, this time banning a tribute video to George Floyd posted by the official Team Trump campaign account. Twitter claims it took down the tribute to Floyd in “response to a report from a copyright holder.”

Pop star Billie Eilish joined protesters in LA and took a knee in support of social justice in the wake of the death of George Floyd.

Last weekend hundreds of people came out in my little town to protest the tragic death of George Floyd. This protest took place less than three miles from my house. Want to know how I found out about it? Well, because it was perfectly peaceful and didn’t involve firebombs and rioting, I found out about it four days later in my local paper.

Nicola Sturgeon said it is “hard to not conclude” that the U.S. President is a racist, after she praised Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests.

Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party in the Canadian parliament, has called on Justin Trudeau to accept any ethnic minority person from the United States who comes to Canada claiming asylum because President Trump has made the country “no longer safe”.